"I was not a 'revolutionary' in the sense of a man with a message. The only thing I was aware of was that I was doing my work, and that it was a question of going forward."

"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading."

"Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge."

"I am a very passionate man. I love life."

"I'm interested in everything in life except music."